Tag: Jesus

Do you ever feel like King David writing the psalms when you reflect back on your old journal entries or seasons in life? One day you may be really going after God with confidence and the next you’re a blubbering ball of mess? Sound familiar? The word “process” has become Continue Reading

Often we go through seasons of life that seem like a desert. It’s dry and uncomfortable. There is no life, no fruit, no visible growth, and you just feel desolate and alone in the wilderness. We pose questions like, Where is God? Why is he not speaking? Why do I feel so lost? These are the moments when we can hear God’s voice so clearly because there is literally nothing else. It’s coming to a place of desperation and humility and saying “God, I have nothing else beside you. I cannot survive unless you provide for me and sustain me with your presence” – It’s uncomfortable, and yet it’s the safest place to be.

Often, I wish I could start every post off with “once upon a time in a far away land [insert story here]” because God has truly given me the best fairytale life. It’s not always easy and my stories don’t always have a happy ending, but God is always faithful and never fails to blow my mind along Continue Reading

Meet Joan. No, I don’t have a photo, but I’d like to tell you about the woman God used to richly bless me. It was Easter Sunday of 2015. I was driving back home to New Haven after a lovely time with family in Philadelphia. It was a gloomy day, and frankly, Continue Reading

Have you ever by happenstance been at the right place at the right time, and were given favor? Maybe you were moved to the front of a long line, or upgraded to first class for free. I am sure something like this has happened to all of us at one time or Continue Reading

RECAP // Becoming Mary // Part 1 In part one, the passionate love Mary had for Jesus was revealed to me while sitting outside of the garden tomb. I heard the simple phrase, “Shabba, I was mistaken for the gardener” and it completely spun my world upside down and allowed me to Continue Reading

I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary Magdalene recently, and by recently I mean for nearly a year. What I am discovering is that there is something so beautiful about her that I’ve been blinded to for years. The Apostle John is often celebrated for his love and devotion to Jesus, Continue Reading

Honestly, it’s nice to finally feel warm. I have been cold for a long time, and not because my house is basically Antarctica, but because of the season of my life. For two years I had experienced what seemed like an eternal winter. God loves the seasons; He created them, Continue Reading

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes Continue Reading

Day 10 was a game changer. It was on the tenth day after arriving in Israel that I had a dream of Jesus. “Why are you sleeping?” He asked. Struck. Overwhelmed. Overcome. Completely humbled by this piercing question. He waited on a response, but I could only stare into His kind eyes of liquid love. I had Continue Reading